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AWS Cost Assessment Form

1. What has been the average monthly spend on your AWS account in the last 6 months? *

2. Please specify the environments created and run on this account. *

3. How often do you review and take actions as per the support tool - AWS Trusted Advisor or a similar utility? *

4. What is the usage level of your AWS resources? *

5. How effective is the process (manual/automated) that identifies and cleans up stale resources? *

6. How often do you review the instance types/sizes launched to assess if they are in line with the expected utilization?
E.g. a large instance may be launched predicting more hits but in reality the hits might be less and a small instance would suffice. *

7. Do you reserve your EC2 / RDS / Redshift instances? If yes please specify the percentage of instances reserved.
E.g. you might be running 50 instances at any point in time and have reservations for 25 instances. Thus, 50% of instances would be reserved. *

8. In how many instances do you have the "Delete on Termination" option choosen for storage when you launch EC2 instances *

9. How many RDS instances do you run with "Multi-AZ" option set to true? *

10. How many AWS Regions are your users allowed to access using a single AWS account? *

11. To what level are spot instances used in your AWS account? *

12. Do you consolidate all your accounts for billing if you own multiple AWS accounts? *